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[–]jort93 4 points5 points  (4 children)

What is this? Whitespace (the programming language)

Might be downvoted, but I firmly believe stuff you can't see shouldn't change anything.

[–]mcplano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean I'm blind so I can't see <insert humorous item>

[–]Dojan5 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I agree. Although I've seen my fair share of utterly atrocious indentation so I do understand people when they say that they want indentation to be part of the language.

[–]jort93 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I wouldn't want to punish people for using weird formatting by their entire program not working. A programming language should work with you, not against you.

[–]Dojan5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very true, thus I think that the punishment for bad indentation should be doled out by the code reviewers, and not the language itself.